Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-13
THE RAILROADS.
The ST. LOuiS and San Francisco BE-
cides TO Build TO Fort Worth
and Buys Depot Grounds.
Rock Island anxious to Build TO
Fort Worth to Obtain Superior Con-
neCtIons-Homs Notes.
Home NOtes.

Fort Wor h people may expect to hear
good news in regard to the Fort Worth
Western in few days.
MIR. A. H. Swanson, the famous railway
man of the Houston and Texas Central,
was in the city yesterday on business
connected with the road.
Three hundred teams to be at work on
the St. Louis. Arkansas and Texas to
Fort Worth inside of sixty days is the
news that comes from headquarters.
Captain Judy Of the Texas and Pacific
reports that only little over one mile of
track remains to be laid with steel rails
between Fort Worth and Weatherford.
The Texas and Pacific is one of the very
best roads now coming to Fort Worth.
1t now employs m0rc men here than any
other road, and is to increase that num-
Der ten, and will also put in additional
machinery Yes, che Texas and Pacific
is said to be considering the building of
shops west of the Trinity river" about
thirty-two miles west of the point where
Dallas obtains lis drinking water.
Mr.. j. J. Mullane, agent Of the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe, states that his
company has determined to establish an
uptown ticket Office, and for that purpose
the building on the southeast corner Of
Main and Fourth streets has been leased
and will be fitted up as soon as possible
This will be quite q convenience TO TIE
travelling public, and makes the second
uptown ticket office established, the other
beng the Houston and Texas Central.
A gentleman who came from the grad
ing on the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
yesterday, saws that Contractor Hughes
is pushing the work with full head of
steam, giving as reason that he had
now secured contract to grade
thirty miles of the road from
Granbury ito Stepnenyllle, which
must be completed before many
months had gone. President Paddock or
Chief Engineer Parsons could not be
found after the statement was made so it
could neither be verified or c0ntradicted,
but the gentleman got his knowledge OF
the contract from first hands.
A railroad man said yesterday that after
the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Rail
road Company had located its line to Fort
Worth 1t would probably begin construc-
ton at three points, Commerce, Plano
and Fort Worth. He said this would
greatly expedite the building of the road
than if they built from only one point, for
the rails would have to be hauled
from New Orleans and Galveston by other
roads 10 any point on the Cotton Belt
Route. 1t is SAID to be the great desire
of the company to have its line completed
and in operation TO Fort Worth in time
to haul ties and other timber needed by
the several railroads building from Fort
Worth. When work begins it will be
pushed through in short order
1t is said the bill of the Chicago, Rock
Rock Island and Pacific now in the hands
of the Senate, calls for right of way
through No Mans Land, and that the
route has been changed so that the west
ern line will not go to Ell Paso but to
Cisco, and the eastern line will come to
Fort Worth and build from this city to
the pineries on as near an air line as pos
sjble. A gentleman who knows some
thing of Rock Island affairs SAYS the
company is very anxious to invade Texas,
and especially anxious to build line to
Fort Worth, where he says they at once